We’ve made stops and Karson’s and SteveN’s place and got some great stuff added to the box. We’ve got a couple of challenges going on now – let’s see what we can do. The box is on it’s way to Florida now to spend some time with brewtang. Here’s the latest map…

Now here’s another challenge for those that participated in Round 2… let’s see some pens! We had some great materials come around in that batch as well and we want to see some pens! If you post a project with some pens please feel free to drop a comment in the blog here. Maybe we can use the tag ‘PT2’ for any pens from Round 2 and ‘PT3’ for this round… Any thoughts are welcome.

Well I received the box on Friday. Sorry for the delay in posting…with Halloween, and being in Jacksonville…Florida / Georgia on Saturday. And since I went to Florida, I was a bit busy. I had great fun looking through the box with my wife and picking stuff out. I forgot to take a picture of the stuff that I took out…but here is a picture of the stuff that I added:

I’ve got a couple pens made tonight out of a couple of the blanks that I took. I’ll get a blog post up in the next day or so with pictures of those. Also, Tim where did you get the red acrylic blank that you used for the pen you put in the box? I really like it.

Hey Billy, this is some good looking stuff, thanks! Even with the FL/GA comments we’ll still let you stick around for the rest of the trade. :-)

I actually got that Acrylic from another IAP member at Penturners.org, I purchased some IBO from him and he was nice enough to toss that in for me. That was one of my favorites, too. I was looking at the pics I posted after I sent it off and started to feel a bit selfish that I didn’t keep it! ;-) I think it went really well with the black chrome Patriot kit, too.

wow! it’s just like christmasI think the REAL challange is not turning pens from the beautiful wood that you take from the box, it’s trying to make wood you didn’t take and what you put back fit in that little cardboard box!I took 391,391b,olive,zebrawood,pink ivory,spalted oak,sweet gum and bubinga

We’ll have to talk to the post office and see if they can come up with an even bigger “Flat Rate Box”

I think the first time people were taking 1 or 2 blanks. Now they are taking 6-8 blanks and replacing with 10-12 blanks. We are really getting some wood spread around. It’s nice that people are using some home based woods that they didn’t have to pay $5.00 a blank. It doesn’t feel that I put in $25.00 worth of wood, payed $13.00 to ship and all I got is a couple of blanks. It’s cheaper to just buy the blanks.

This has been fun. and I enjoy spreading the wealth of woods. I’ve probably got 1,000 blanks cut of local woods and I know I’ll never make that many pens.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware soon moving to Virginia karsonwm@gmail.com †

oooohh…this is gonna be fun…my big worry—-it gets to me the week i am gone…does anyone know how well redwoood wood turn??? I know its soft…but i have tons of clear heart redwood from my deck…and i know that it may be hard for some people to get away from the left coast…

oooohh…this is gonna be fun…my big worry—-it gets to me the week i am gone…does anyone know how well redwoood wood turn??? I know its soft…but i have tons of clear heart redwood from my deck…and i know that it may be hard for some people to get away from the left coast…